^ Agreed with Jadek. A design which emphasizes activity is a good design. Further, if CP is hard to come by, highly active newbros may become a valuable asset to competitive corps (for the first time since Chromosome). This could work wonders with retention rates.

Since PC level warfare, is akin to becoming pirates you can have the pirate suits, as well as other, unlawful entities in the game readily accessible to them for DK.

I may have missed the point in the thread somewhere, I just woke up, but if I'm understanding right you can no longer get ISK directly from PC right (aside from battles) ? You have to use the DK credit that you earn during battles just to make an ISK profit from PC?

Also, with raiding. Sounds like a great opportunity for introducing players to PC without the stress piled on all at once. But will Raiding really be that profitable and worth it? Maybe if you guys found the time later down the line we could capture a small amount of Assets for whatever the type of planet infrastructure it is.

Whenever we get the salvage thing in place we could repurpose one of the infrastructures to make specific experimental weapons and maybe even officer weapons to our choosing. Raiders could then come along and raid a district for the sweet chance of getting some good gears in the enemy corporations weapons cache.

Whatever mechanics happens, I'm fairly sure the current design is they work the same as regular PC battles. i.e. you have to wait either 1 or 2 days till the battle. Please correct me Rattati if i'm wrong.

I'm all for fast raids, personally I prefer minimal notice if it's within the district timer. However i'm sure this can be debated how they work, I just want to make sure it's changed from the current mechanic to something much faster.

Now we have to figure out what to spend district kredits on. Here is a controversial idea, but one that keeps the end game of the skill tree in mind.

[Idea] Use District Kredits to sell your unallocated skill points

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=199395&find=unread

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TL;DR
-Unallocated active & boosted sp goes into a implant production.
-Size of raw components to build implant to is determined by your warbarge module level = 5 grades, 5 levels.
-Components are purchased with AUR or District Kredits
-You chose how long it takes to produce. Faster = more skill wastage, Longer = less skill wastage
-Extra crafting production slots to speed up industry rate are bought with AUR or District Kredits
-You sell it, use it, or craft it with salvage or booster.
-Crafted item makes run of modifer pirate implants for special clone not allowed in high sec battles, or makes high powered boosters
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It's peoples sense of accomplishment and progression in this game and to alter it is something certainly not to take lightly in any respects. While I too am at around 44m SP there are super vets in the game who are already pushing 150-160m skill points. It was calculated a while back that if you had the money to stock up on Omega and stack them for 85 weeks with active play you could complete the Skill Tree ~260m SP. I don't believe this factored in Instant Boosting after battles. There will come a point where people are going to run out of things to spend their points on, which forces CCP to perpetually make new things to fill this tree which isn't very ideal in terms of costs for a developer.

There is also the feeling of grind in getting things to level 5 on a skill tree which people don't enjoy if they're not maxing boosters. Instead, getting to a point of maxing your cores and setting on a suit and play style you enjoy, while turning additional SP into a resource you and stockpile, sell, trade, or gift carries a difference sense of progression and daily accomplishment.

There's the recruitment tool aspect I discussed in the topic of being able to use the stockpiled implants to get your friends into Dust more quickly. 10 million lifetime SP is that key point for beginning to be battle effective in PC. The wait and trail by fire for a newbie has it's merits, we all went through it, yet there is a zeitgeist of the games industry to reward instant gratification. CCP games should keep New Eden hard and unforgiving, but when getting people into their games friends rewarding friends with starter SP taken from their own characters feels like a solution that can satisfy both sides of the argument for gratification and process development.

Spreadsheet warriors and new player assistance providers unite!

As long as PC players receive DKs for winning matches in the EOM screen I don't think it's that big of a deal. To be honest this is really the first tangible benefit of even being in a corp in Dust. Besides the tag and being able to enter corporate PC battles (with roles) directly you could accomplish the same thing with just a chat channel.